The economy isn’t “struggling” — it’s rigged like a 2000s carnival game run by Boomers who still think fax machines are cutting-edge.
Gen Z didn’t “fail to budget.”
We weren’t “lazy.”
We weren’t “eating too much avocado toast.”
We were handed a burning building and told to “lean in.”
Let me break this down for the people who bought their house for the price of a laptop:
✅ Wages didn’t stagnate — they flatlined.
Boomers got one salary and bought a whole damn neighborhood.
We get three jobs and can maybe afford a broom closet with a window facing a brick wall that smells like depression.
✅ Housing isn’t a market — it’s a hostage situation.
Our parents paid $40k for a home.
We pay that in closing fees.
We’re paying rent like we’re sponsoring a small country.
✅ Healthcare is just debt with a lobbyist.
One ambulance ride and you’re reenacting the Great Depression in your bank account.
✅ College didn’t get more valuable — it just got more expensive.
They told us to get degrees.
We did.
Now we’re paying $700 a month for a piece of paper HR doesn’t even read.
✅ The job market is a Hunger Games reboot no one asked for.
“Entry-level” now means 5 years experience, fluency in 3 coding languages, and a willingness to emotionally babysit a middle manager who shouldn’t be in charge of a stapler.
🔥 AND THEN THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO SAY WE’RE ENTITLED.
My brother in Christ… you bought a house with pocket change.
We can’t even buy groceries without choosing which organ we’re willing to part with.
Boomers didn’t “work harder.”
They just existed in a functioning economy.
✅ SO WHAT DO WE DO?
1. We demand a living wage — not a survival wage.
Raise the minimum. Tie it to productivity and inflation.
If corporations have record profits, workers shouldn’t have record overdraft fees.
2. We cap rent increases and fight predatory landlords.
Housing is a human need, not a Monopoly board.
3. We cancel student debt and regulate tuition.
If Germany and Norway can do it, maybe the richest country on Earth can too.
4. We tax the ultra-rich like the country depends on it — because it does.
No more billionaire Fortnite lobbies hiding money in space.
Enough.
5. We break up monopolies.
Because four companies shouldn’t control all groceries, all media, all housing, and all six job listings on Indeed.
6. We protect remote work and modern labor rights.
Productivity is up.
Burnout is up.
Pay and autonomy should be up too.
7. We vote like our future is on clearance — because it is.
They’re betting on us being too tired to fight.
Plot twist:
We’re tired and pissed.
🎤 FINAL WORD:
We’re not asking for luxury.
We’re asking for what was normal 40 years ago.
A home.
A life.
A future that doesn’t require a co-signer named Jesus.
And we’re done being polite about it.